RJT> Because with *.MSG being stored one message-per-
 RJT> file,  the software (at least some of it) would 
 RJT> look for each and every number,  starting from 1,  
 RJT> by way of dos filesystem calls,  which was very 
 RJT> slow and inefficient.  Putting them all together 
 RJT> with consecutive low numbers does away with this 
 RJT> problem.
 
FWIW, that shouldn't happen under max/unix -- I'm pretty sure Scott uses
FindOpen() to find *.MSG files by wildcard; this in turn gets translated
into a glob() expression for *.[Mm][Ss][Gg], which gets returned from a
single diropen() at the OS level (e.g. glob expands the wildcards into an
array of char stars)
 
Wes

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